The criminal court in Toulon sentenced two illegal immigrants from Tunisia to three years in prison. In July 2021, they had attacked a compatriot in a squat in La Seyne.
The conflict spread across the Mediterranean. From Bizerta to La Seyne, the same hatred, the same routine. On July 25, 2021, Brahim Zaouiaoui violently attacked Yassine Dems in a squatted house in Cité Berthe. He was so violent that an attempted murder case was opened for a while. Finally, the criminal court of Toulon decided on the case last month. It sentenced Brahim Zaouiaoui and Hassan Dhifallah to three years in prison and a definitive ban to enter the country.
The services of the Ministry of the Interior are of the same opinion. In 2016, Yassine Dems did belong to a Salafist movement. “His name was mentioned in a planned attack in the European Union,” explains lawyer Christophe Hernandez, who is defending Hassan Dhifallah. He was close to a German terrorist, a certain Denis Cuspert. If you know his background, you have the right to question the veracity of his statements.”
“He is a fundamentalist who accused us of drinking alcohol,” Brahim agrees. “He kept asking us to help him organise attacks in France and to carry out an attack at a festival in La Seyne,” Hassan adds. Lawyer Hollet points to his client and says: “This boy may have saved some residents of Seyn!”
But the court judges on facts, not hypotheses. “Yassine Dems was undoubtedly not the neighbour one dreams of, but that is no reason to kill him with a knife,” says judge Marie-Laure Arnouil. A few days after the crime, the man was sent back to Tunisia. Since then, it has disappeared from the scene. Nice-Matin